THE NATIONS: Story of a Crisis

This week the West stopped talking to
Moscow about the Berlin crisis. Instead, it started talking to the
world. In Paris, George Marshall, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman
gravely announced that the Soviet Government had made further
negotiations impossible; consequently they were taking the issue of the
Berlin blockade to the United Nations.

The next day, the U.S. State Department published a massive 77-page
"white paper." Compiled day by day as the secret negotiations with
Moscow wore on, it revealed the remarkable story of an earnest,
untiring and utterly futile attempt to reach understanding with Soviet
Russia. The only possible...